“Google has now signed an undertaking committing to make further changes to the privacy policy to ensure it meets the requirements of the Data Protection Act and to take steps to ensure that future changes to its privacy policy comply, including user testing.”

The ICO’s original investigation stemmed from Google’s introduction of a privacy policy in March 2012 which combined around 70 existing policies for existing services including YouTube, Gmail and Google+. It ruled then that the new approach did not include sufficient information for users on how and why their data is collected.